Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668021560
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the story of our wedding vows—what they mean and why they still matter. In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that “taking vows” is a synonym for getting married. So, it’s a surprise to realize that this custom is actually a historical and anthropological oddity. Most of the world, for most of history, married without making promises. And there’s a reason for that. Marriage by vow presupposes free choice, and free choice makes a love-match possible. It is a very modern arrangement. Vows is both a moving memoir of two marriages and a thoughtful meditation on marriage itself. Cheryl Mendelson tackles the sociology of commitment through our most traditional promises and shows why they endure. In considering the kind of marriage these vows entail, she helps answer some of life’s most urgent and personal of questions: Could I, would I, or should I make these promises to someone? Using history and literature, the book describes the parameters of the behavior that traditional vows promise and, in doing so, answers a whole series of other questions: Why did wedding-by-vow arise only in the West? Why are they recited in weddings around the world today? Why have these vows lasted for nearly a thousand years? Why does the kind of marriage promised in the vows survive?
Author: Julianne MacLean
Publisher: Julianne MacLean
ISBN: 1927675448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Madeline Oxley has been ruined by a scandal through no fault of her own, and her future looks bleak. When a gentleman from her past requests that she set sail for the New World to become his wife, she jumps at the chance to become a mail order bride and marry the man she has loved since she was a girl. Adam Coates was a mere tenant farmer when he left England for the British Colony of Nova Scotia, but now he is a prosperous and influential landowner. What Madeline doesn’t know is that her father has hoodwinked them both—for the bride Adam truly wanted was her beautiful, older sister, Diana—his first love. When Madeline steps off the ship with romantic dreams of her long-awaited happily-ever-after, she is shocked and dismayed to discover the truth. Madeline is furious with her father for his treachery, but she has sailed across an ocean to an unfamiliar land and must remain, at least temporarily, under the protection of the man she still loves—the man who still intends to wed her sister. Over the coming weeks, as their friendship deepens and grows, will Adam come to realize that he’d set his heart on the wrong sister all along? Or will it be too late to find the happiness they both desire? Adam’s Promise was a Romance Writers of America RITA Finalist – nominated for best short historical romance of 2003. It is a sweet historical romance. “You can always count on Julianne MacLean to deliver ravishing romance that will keep you turning pages until the wee hours of the morning.” —Teresa Medeiros
Author: Barbara Eklof
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
ISBN: 9781558509801
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Includes "religious and secular vows" and "vows for all ages and marital backgrounds" as well as "tips on how to write your own" and worksheets "for recording the important details that surround your wedding."
Author: Stanley Harrold
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813942306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement’s direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold focuses on abolitionists’ political tactics—petitioning, lobbying, establishing bonds with sympathetic politicians—and on their disruptions of slavery itself. Harrold begins with the abolition movement’s relationship to politics and government in the northern American colonies and goes on to evaluate its effect in a number of crucial contexts--the U.S. Congress during the 1790s, the Missouri Compromise, the struggle over slavery in Illinois during the 1820s, and abolitionist petitioning of Congress during that same decade. He shows how the rise of "immediate" abolitionism, with its emphasis on moral suasion, did not diminish direct abolitionists’ impact on Congress during the 1830s and 1840s. The book also addresses abolitionists’ direct actions against slavery itself, aiding escaped or kidnapped slaves, which led southern politicians to demand the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a major flashpoint of antebellum politics. Finally, Harrold investigates the relationship between abolitionists and the Republican Party through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Author: Michael Macfarlane
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806906393
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Designed to instruct, inspire, and even warn, this easy-to-use handbook offers suggestions to fit every situation, lifestyle, and personality. It begins with an overview of the wedding ceremony, including discussions of religious and civil ceremonies as well as ceremonies without clergy or an officiant. Scores of vows that can be adapted and borrowed from are presented.
Author: Henry Howe
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Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: Frank Asch
Publisher: Frank Asch
ISBN: 1621547787
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
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Pearl will never forget the day her mother and father were sold. Ever since, Pearl, a white mouse living in Mr. Adams' Pet Store, has taken charge of her younger brother, Tony. All's well until Prang, an evil-tempered snake, arrives in the pet store – and Mr. Adams targets Tony for Prang's next meal. To make matters worse, Pearl herself is sold the next day, but she vows to return to save Tony. How is she ever going to get back? And if she does, can she match wits with the vicious Prang? Humorous illustrations add to the fun in this charming and irresistible story of faith and courage.
